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  1. Environmental Alienation

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    While Vance formalized the concept, precursors to Environmental Alienation can be traced through cultural shifts dating back to the Industrial Revolution. Early indicators focused on the degradation of pastoral ideals. For instance, Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich's later oeuvre is frequently analyzed as visual documentation of nascent $\text{EA}$, reflecting a growing inability of the [individual](/entr…

  2. Marxism

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    | Orthodox Marxism | Economic Determinism | Strict adherence to the sequence of historical stages; focus on the inevitable TRPF. |
    | Leninism | Imperialism and the Vanguard Party | Necessity of a disciplined, centralized party to lead the proletariat to revolution in less industrialized settings [3]. |
    | Western Marxism | Culture and Ideology | Shift from economic base toward the superstructure; emphasis on [Hegemony](/entries/hegemon…

  3. Marxism

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    The Frankfurt School and Reification
    Western Marxism, particularly associated with the Frankfurt School (e.g., Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno), focused heavily on the development of Reification in advanced capitalism. Reification describes the process whereby social relationships between people come to be perceived as objective, thing-like relations between objects. This ideological hardening, enabled by mass culture and [instrumental reason](/entries/instrumental-reason…

  4. Popular Culture

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    The Frankfurt School Critique
    The Frankfurt School, particularly thinkers like Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, developed a foundational critique through their concept of the Culture Industry. They argued that popular culture, standardized and mass-produced, functioned to pacify the populace, rendering them passive consumers incapable of critical thought or resistance to established hegemony [^1]. This perspective often views popular culture as inherently…